My brother moved to Vancouver, Washington, and visited a pet store operated by a company with the improbable name Mud Bay. It’s a chain of pet stores on the west coast with an unusually animal-centered attitude. Have a look at https://mudbay.com.

Welcome to the new Natural Scratch website and my first blog entry in many years. For starters, I’d like to complement web-designer-photogapher-tech Vic for giving naturalscratch.com this modern look. He’s a wonder. Creative, hardworking, technically...